QA Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation QA Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
31 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 758 901
Rank change year-on-year -62 +143 -173
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 26 137 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 24 116 227
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,188 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,875 £68,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £64,625 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 85,614 77,363 135,380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 91.32% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,242 50,157 75,088
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured QA Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in England.

Salary trend for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Automation Engineer in England

QA Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London +19 10 £55,000 -4.35% 2
South East -16 5 £52,500 -8.70%
East of England -6 3 £37,500 - 1
South West -39 3 £57,500 +76.92% 1
North of England +31 2 £62,500 +28.21%
Midlands -9 2 £40,000 -25.93%
West Midlands -11 2 £40,000 -25.93%
Yorkshire +71 1 - -
North West -9 1 £62,500 +38.89%
QA Automation Engineer
UK

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, QA Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) QA
1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (69.23%) QA Automation
3 17 (65.38%) Agile
3 17 (65.38%) Java
4 14 (53.85%) Cucumber
5 12 (46.15%) Selenium
6 11 (42.31%) BDD
7 10 (38.46%) Azure
7 10 (38.46%) API Testing
8 9 (34.62%) Test Strategy
8 9 (34.62%) Python
9 8 (30.77%) TDD
9 8 (30.77%) Software Testing
9 8 (30.77%) AWS
9 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (30.77%) Postman
9 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
9 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
10 6 (23.08%) SDLC
10 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
10 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
10 6 (23.08%) Spring
11 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
11 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (19.23%) Docker
11 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
12 4 (15.38%) User Experience
12 4 (15.38%) Appium

QA Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Cucumber
2 12 (46.15%) Selenium
3 8 (30.77%) Postman
4 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
5 4 (15.38%) Appium
5 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
5 4 (15.38%) JMeter
5 4 (15.38%) JUnit
6 3 (11.54%) Mockito
7 2 (7.69%) Git
7 2 (7.69%) GitLab
7 2 (7.69%) UI Automator
8 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
8 1 (3.85%) TestCafe
8 1 (3.85%) TestComplete
8 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Automotive
3 3 (11.54%) Health Technology
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Spring
2 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
3 3 (11.54%) Playwright
3 3 (11.54%) Web Services
3 3 (11.54%) WireMock
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.85%) pytest
5 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Bitcoin
3 1 (3.85%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Android
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (69.23%) QA Automation
3 17 (65.38%) Agile
4 11 (42.31%) BDD
5 10 (38.46%) API Testing
6 9 (34.62%) Test Strategy
7 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (30.77%) Software Testing
7 8 (30.77%) TDD
8 6 (23.08%) SDLC
8 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
9 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
10 4 (15.38%) E-Commerce
10 4 (15.38%) Integration Testing
10 4 (15.38%) Scrum
10 4 (15.38%) SDET
10 4 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle
1 1 (3.85%) Splunk
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